What is an alignment?

Answer Posted / swapna

The juxtaposition of amino acids or nucleotides in
homologous molecules to maximize similarity or minimize the
number of inferred changes among the sequences. Alignment
is used to infer positional homology (qv) prior to or
concurrent with phylogenetic.

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